From Wikipedia: Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in the year 1906. It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces coming to life.
Listed as Public Domain by Wikipedia and available on this Library of Congress site: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/papr:@field(NUMBER+@band(animp+4064))
Director:J. Stuart Blackton Producer:J. Stuart Blackton Production Company:Vitagraph Co. of America Audio/Visual:silent, b/w Keywords:J. Stuart Blackton
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Reviewer:Spuzz -
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August 16, 2008 Subject:
Not Quite
At first I thought this cartoon was all chalkboard animation, and maybe the animators wanted us to believe that too, but as we went along, this appears to be slightly more complex then that, that there is SOME chalkboard. but it's mostly handdrawn. Anyways, this is just a series of vignettes with some clever animating styles, nothing more. It's pretty good.
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